E.D.E. Bell
@edebell.com
Fantasy author. Editor @AtthisArts.com. Organizer @PubProsABB.bsky.social. Vegan. Mama. Queer. Michigander. Mentally disabled. Blue Ajah. Hasty Ent. Quests in heals. Shkode-kwe. Aήττητη. she/her or e/em. Emily or E. 🧄.
Speak plainly and stand together.
Speak plainly and stand together.
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E.D.E. Bell
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African Translation Project / Need to complete funding for Shona → English translation / still needed: $2400, 52% / Amount above completes funding for translation of Zvinobvinza / isiZulu translation ...
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Thank you for your generosity and shares! Now to 52% - it *all* helps.
I know there are a lot of fundraisers, but we've been at this 8 months for a Black woman owned small press, and there are many reasons it would really help to rally and close this up.
Link to share: ko-fi.com/africantrans...
I know there are a lot of fundraisers, but we've been at this 8 months for a Black woman owned small press, and there are many reasons it would really help to rally and close this up.
Link to share: ko-fi.com/africantrans...
Gave myself a gift today and read Psychopomp & Circumstance by Eden Royce. Loved it so much. Immersive, beautiful, comforting, energizing. I am so deeply grateful that people are writing stories such as this. We are blessed.
November 28, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Gave myself a gift today and read Psychopomp & Circumstance by Eden Royce. Loved it so much. Immersive, beautiful, comforting, energizing. I am so deeply grateful that people are writing stories such as this. We are blessed.
Happy Thanksgiving from our home to yours.
November 28, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Happy Thanksgiving from our home to yours.
Proud of cooking for my family.
November 28, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Proud of cooking for my family.
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2. Editorially, The IF Anthology of New Indian SFF: www.goodreads.com/book/show/23... (the anthology is also eligible in its category, as are the individual stories in theirs).
3. Editorially, a number of articles for Strange Horizons: strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
3. Editorially, a number of articles for Strange Horizons: strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
Between Worlds: The IF Anthology of New Indian SFF, Vol…
About the Book BOLD INDIAN SF LIKE YOU'VE NEVER SEEN-…
www.goodreads.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:03 PM
2. Editorially, The IF Anthology of New Indian SFF: www.goodreads.com/book/show/23... (the anthology is also eligible in its category, as are the individual stories in theirs).
3. Editorially, a number of articles for Strange Horizons: strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
3. Editorially, a number of articles for Strange Horizons: strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
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It's awards eligibility time of the year! I don't have any fiction to offer for 2025, but here is some involvement with non-fiction for consideration.
1. "The Secret History of Indian Science Fiction," in various non-fiction and related work categories: altermag.com/articles/the...
[TBC below.]
1. "The Secret History of Indian Science Fiction," in various non-fiction and related work categories: altermag.com/articles/the...
[TBC below.]
The Secret History of Indian Science Fiction.
Before Asimov, there was Rokeya.
altermag.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:01 PM
It's awards eligibility time of the year! I don't have any fiction to offer for 2025, but here is some involvement with non-fiction for consideration.
1. "The Secret History of Indian Science Fiction," in various non-fiction and related work categories: altermag.com/articles/the...
[TBC below.]
1. "The Secret History of Indian Science Fiction," in various non-fiction and related work categories: altermag.com/articles/the...
[TBC below.]
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Want the entire Fireborn series for a steal? Only on itch.io Nov 27 - Dec 11. Get all 6 books for only $20! Queer, firebending dragon riders, super-powered best friends, and globe-spanning adventure to save the world. 🌈📚 #booksky #QueerAdultSFF #CompleteSeries
itch.io/s/167057/com...
itch.io/s/167057/com...
November 27, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Want the entire Fireborn series for a steal? Only on itch.io Nov 27 - Dec 11. Get all 6 books for only $20! Queer, firebending dragon riders, super-powered best friends, and globe-spanning adventure to save the world. 🌈📚 #booksky #QueerAdultSFF #CompleteSeries
itch.io/s/167057/com...
itch.io/s/167057/com...
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If you would like to shop small this weekend, consider indie bookshops rather than the big chains. Consider the authors themselves, even. A ton of us have signed books available on our websites.
Me for example: www.swankmotron.com/shop
(and if you're doing this, drop your link below, too)
Me for example: www.swankmotron.com/shop
(and if you're doing this, drop your link below, too)
Shop — Bryan Young
www.swankmotron.com
November 27, 2025 at 8:43 PM
If you would like to shop small this weekend, consider indie bookshops rather than the big chains. Consider the authors themselves, even. A ton of us have signed books available on our websites.
Me for example: www.swankmotron.com/shop
(and if you're doing this, drop your link below, too)
Me for example: www.swankmotron.com/shop
(and if you're doing this, drop your link below, too)
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An excerpt from the translation we are trying to fund.
Please, the timeline on this is running out for the February opportunity. Could you please help rally? We really need this in the next days to week. Thank you *so* much.
ko-fi.com/post/Excerpt...
Please, the timeline on this is running out for the February opportunity. Could you please help rally? We really need this in the next days to week. Thank you *so* much.
ko-fi.com/post/Excerpt...
Excerpt from The Crocodile Doesn't Hunt
African Translation Project published a post on Ko-fi
ko-fi.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:46 AM
An excerpt from the translation we are trying to fund.
Please, the timeline on this is running out for the February opportunity. Could you please help rally? We really need this in the next days to week. Thank you *so* much.
ko-fi.com/post/Excerpt...
Please, the timeline on this is running out for the February opportunity. Could you please help rally? We really need this in the next days to week. Thank you *so* much.
ko-fi.com/post/Excerpt...
An excerpt from the translation we are trying to fund.
Please, the timeline on this is running out for the February opportunity. Could you please help rally? We really need this in the next days to week. Thank you *so* much.
ko-fi.com/post/Excerpt...
Please, the timeline on this is running out for the February opportunity. Could you please help rally? We really need this in the next days to week. Thank you *so* much.
ko-fi.com/post/Excerpt...
Excerpt from The Crocodile Doesn't Hunt
African Translation Project published a post on Ko-fi
ko-fi.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:46 AM
An excerpt from the translation we are trying to fund.
Please, the timeline on this is running out for the February opportunity. Could you please help rally? We really need this in the next days to week. Thank you *so* much.
ko-fi.com/post/Excerpt...
Please, the timeline on this is running out for the February opportunity. Could you please help rally? We really need this in the next days to week. Thank you *so* much.
ko-fi.com/post/Excerpt...
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Wolf's Path by Joyce Chng
within a running wolf, four-pawed, howling
www.atthisarts.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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"one of the most ambitious and engaging SFF writers today"
(I need to own this)
(I need to own this)
November 27, 2025 at 4:08 AM
"one of the most ambitious and engaging SFF writers today"
(I need to own this)
(I need to own this)
🚧 HOLIDAY CHECKPOINT 🚧
If you have the means, are you subscribed to @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social - are you sure it's stayed current - and have you considered gift subscriptions for your gift list, or as thank yous for teachers, providers, neighbors, friends?
If you have the means, are you subscribed to @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social - are you sure it's stayed current - and have you considered gift subscriptions for your gift list, or as thank yous for teachers, providers, neighbors, friends?
November 26, 2025 at 6:00 PM
🚧 HOLIDAY CHECKPOINT 🚧
If you have the means, are you subscribed to @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social - are you sure it's stayed current - and have you considered gift subscriptions for your gift list, or as thank yous for teachers, providers, neighbors, friends?
If you have the means, are you subscribed to @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social - are you sure it's stayed current - and have you considered gift subscriptions for your gift list, or as thank yous for teachers, providers, neighbors, friends?
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Still at 52%
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Share share donate donate
The African Translation Project is up to 52% of its goal!
Let's pay human writers and human translators!
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Let's pay human writers and human translators!
ko-fi.com/africantrans...
Support African Translation Project
African Translation Project / Need to complete funding for Shona → English translation / still needed: $2400, 52% / Amount above completes funding for translation of Zvinobvinza / isiZulu translation ...
ko-fi.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Still at 52%
Share share donate donate
Share share donate donate
A senior intelligence official heard my name mentioned as the source of some unlikely information, and said "Wait - Emily Bell? Not the one who worked here years ago?"
The person said yes, and he said, "That's all I need to know. You can trust every word that comes out of that woman's mouth."
The person said yes, and he said, "That's all I need to know. You can trust every word that comes out of that woman's mouth."
What is the best compliment you ever received? Putting aside whether or not you believed it.
November 26, 2025 at 3:16 PM
A senior intelligence official heard my name mentioned as the source of some unlikely information, and said "Wait - Emily Bell? Not the one who worked here years ago?"
The person said yes, and he said, "That's all I need to know. You can trust every word that comes out of that woman's mouth."
The person said yes, and he said, "That's all I need to know. You can trust every word that comes out of that woman's mouth."
This is why I love birthdays and the New Year so much. They're symbolic, but sometimes we need what are really - reminders.
We can listen. We can be kind. We can care. We can be thoughtful. We can lift each other.
I hope we can all make that our pledge in 2026.
We can listen. We can be kind. We can care. We can be thoughtful. We can lift each other.
I hope we can all make that our pledge in 2026.
November 26, 2025 at 4:56 AM
This is why I love birthdays and the New Year so much. They're symbolic, but sometimes we need what are really - reminders.
We can listen. We can be kind. We can care. We can be thoughtful. We can lift each other.
I hope we can all make that our pledge in 2026.
We can listen. We can be kind. We can care. We can be thoughtful. We can lift each other.
I hope we can all make that our pledge in 2026.
Re: What Joyce just said about meanness, "without care" is key.
People justify all sorts of soul-crushing cruelty because of some little justification.
It's supposed to be if a human falls, we help them up. We ask first, Are you ok? Then, What happened?
Not lol yay let's all jump on them.
People justify all sorts of soul-crushing cruelty because of some little justification.
It's supposed to be if a human falls, we help them up. We ask first, Are you ok? Then, What happened?
Not lol yay let's all jump on them.
November 26, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Re: What Joyce just said about meanness, "without care" is key.
People justify all sorts of soul-crushing cruelty because of some little justification.
It's supposed to be if a human falls, we help them up. We ask first, Are you ok? Then, What happened?
Not lol yay let's all jump on them.
People justify all sorts of soul-crushing cruelty because of some little justification.
It's supposed to be if a human falls, we help them up. We ask first, Are you ok? Then, What happened?
Not lol yay let's all jump on them.
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People forget there are flesh-and-blood people behind the social media accounts (not counting bots).
We are becoming meaner, harsher and blunter.
We are becoming meaner, harsher and blunter.
November 26, 2025 at 3:09 AM
People forget there are flesh-and-blood people behind the social media accounts (not counting bots).
We are becoming meaner, harsher and blunter.
We are becoming meaner, harsher and blunter.
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I have to say that 2025 is the year of mean-ness.
Where mean-ness is validated and people lash out at each other, without care (and this is just social media).
Where mean-ness is validated and people lash out at each other, without care (and this is just social media).
November 26, 2025 at 3:07 AM
I have to say that 2025 is the year of mean-ness.
Where mean-ness is validated and people lash out at each other, without care (and this is just social media).
Where mean-ness is validated and people lash out at each other, without care (and this is just social media).
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Life poem: being kind / to others & self says / ‘I see you/me, I feel you/me’ / increasing grace for all…
November 13, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Life poem: being kind / to others & self says / ‘I see you/me, I feel you/me’ / increasing grace for all…
If you agree that writers of privilege are completely, knowingly spreading disinformation and protecting abusers, and you have privilege, please don't be complicit. Please don't be silent.
If you don't agree, I mean, I've stated direct proof and people are willfully and aggressively ignoring it.
If you don't agree, I mean, I've stated direct proof and people are willfully and aggressively ignoring it.
November 25, 2025 at 9:10 PM
If you agree that writers of privilege are completely, knowingly spreading disinformation and protecting abusers, and you have privilege, please don't be complicit. Please don't be silent.
If you don't agree, I mean, I've stated direct proof and people are willfully and aggressively ignoring it.
If you don't agree, I mean, I've stated direct proof and people are willfully and aggressively ignoring it.
I wish people cared about writers supporting racists and abusers as much as they cared about readers pirating books.
Zero glib; I think about a world where writers of privilege considered disinformation or protecting abusers bad and it crushes me that they don't.
Have to work hard not to spiral.
Zero glib; I think about a world where writers of privilege considered disinformation or protecting abusers bad and it crushes me that they don't.
Have to work hard not to spiral.
November 25, 2025 at 9:07 PM
I wish people cared about writers supporting racists and abusers as much as they cared about readers pirating books.
Zero glib; I think about a world where writers of privilege considered disinformation or protecting abusers bad and it crushes me that they don't.
Have to work hard not to spiral.
Zero glib; I think about a world where writers of privilege considered disinformation or protecting abusers bad and it crushes me that they don't.
Have to work hard not to spiral.
The pre-programming against evaluation is killing us. Please consider:
Writer ≠ Good
Publisher ≠ Bad
Popular ≠ Kind or Right
Not For Profit ≠ Good Intentions or Not Profiting
For Profit ≠ Motivated by Profit or Profiting
Bias ≠ Bad
Gatekeeping ≠ Bad
Boundaries ≠ Good
Holding a Line ≠ Solidarity
...
Writer ≠ Good
Publisher ≠ Bad
Popular ≠ Kind or Right
Not For Profit ≠ Good Intentions or Not Profiting
For Profit ≠ Motivated by Profit or Profiting
Bias ≠ Bad
Gatekeeping ≠ Bad
Boundaries ≠ Good
Holding a Line ≠ Solidarity
...
November 25, 2025 at 8:53 PM
The pre-programming against evaluation is killing us. Please consider:
Writer ≠ Good
Publisher ≠ Bad
Popular ≠ Kind or Right
Not For Profit ≠ Good Intentions or Not Profiting
For Profit ≠ Motivated by Profit or Profiting
Bias ≠ Bad
Gatekeeping ≠ Bad
Boundaries ≠ Good
Holding a Line ≠ Solidarity
...
Writer ≠ Good
Publisher ≠ Bad
Popular ≠ Kind or Right
Not For Profit ≠ Good Intentions or Not Profiting
For Profit ≠ Motivated by Profit or Profiting
Bias ≠ Bad
Gatekeeping ≠ Bad
Boundaries ≠ Good
Holding a Line ≠ Solidarity
...
Well, I have never declined as many NetGalley requests.
Trying to only approve accounts who are both human and also a book reviewer or curator.
There's so much we need to get serious about.
Trying to only approve accounts who are both human and also a book reviewer or curator.
There's so much we need to get serious about.
November 25, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Well, I have never declined as many NetGalley requests.
Trying to only approve accounts who are both human and also a book reviewer or curator.
There's so much we need to get serious about.
Trying to only approve accounts who are both human and also a book reviewer or curator.
There's so much we need to get serious about.
I've been thinking a lot about genre culture. Was watching a show, and all the ads were this unsettling combination of hyperrealistic unsettling mind-hyping slop and just like, lol / meanness / harm. And holiday ads usually go for the fake kind vibe, but not now. They all feel so *mean*.
November 25, 2025 at 3:33 AM
I've been thinking a lot about genre culture. Was watching a show, and all the ads were this unsettling combination of hyperrealistic unsettling mind-hyping slop and just like, lol / meanness / harm. And holiday ads usually go for the fake kind vibe, but not now. They all feel so *mean*.
I LOVE IT. ALL OF IT.
The art, the artists, our world together.
The art, the artists, our world together.
November 25, 2025 at 1:18 AM
I LOVE IT. ALL OF IT.
The art, the artists, our world together.
The art, the artists, our world together.